Once upon a midnight very dreary

[PrinceMyshkin]

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Searching for a rhyme and growing teary

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of my next door neighbour rapping, rapping loudly at my chamber door.

“What doth thou want,” I cried out, bleary
From the cheap Amontillado I had drunk before.

“Will you stop that ruddy rhyming,” quoth she,
“In my ears there’s such a chiming
As I never heard before!”

Quoth I: “Nevermore!”

I was busily composing a classic
And would not be deterred by some spastic
Bourgeois idiot from next door!

I sought a suitable name for a maiden who my classic would adorn
One that would rhyme with “door”.
Flore? Or Rudigore? None seemed quite right, and so
I decided to call her “Haven”
And to invoke the figure of a raven
Who’d come calling at my chamber door!


And so was born this much anthologized poem
Which none would have the audacity to call a bore!

[CdnReader]

Oh shall I say then the poem is fine?
I liked it so well until I got to this line....



I sought a suitable name for a maiden who my classic would adorn


...and my tongue tripped over this unexpected schism
because the line was too long, it didn't suit the rhythm.
Or perhaps the syllables were subject to a miscount...
but the rhyming, in any case, pleased me an overwhelming amount.

[Pendragon]

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[Sweets America]

Jer, this is so different from your other poems! This is nice and funny.
I particularly love the line:

“What doth thou want,” I cried out
because that reminds me so much of you and me on the phone!:lol:

[SleepyWitch]

oh my, it's hilarious :lol:

[DickZ]

Great job, Prince!! I recognize a few Poe works in your clever piece, and maybe even some Gilbert and Sullivan to accompany them.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Oh shall I say then the poem is fine?
I liked it so well until I got to this line....



...and my tongue tripped over this unexpected schism
because the line was too long, it didn't suit the rhythm.
Or perhaps the syllables were subject to a miscount...
but the rhyming, in any case, pleased me an overwhelming amount.

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[crazefest456]

I was busily composing a classic
And would not be deterred by some spastic
Bourgeois idiot from next door!

I luv these! They roll off your tongue...

[ampoule]

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Now, hold on there boy.

[CdnReader]

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Now, see here. If you'da told me you had your feisty back, I'da been more careful. :lol:

[blazeofglory]

There is everything herein, rhyme, rhythm and of course something very deepening.

[motherhubbard]

oh prince, this is the best! I love it. after this you need to
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